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established in the immediate vicinity of this Harber, for the purpose of visiting and searching all repelo leaving Hongkong, - estensibly to erocertain whether they have opium on board, without having previously frovided themselves with stamped Tickets and Brands for the Chests and 1Balls of Opium respectively, which the Proclamation
being procured at
a
cost of the vapel
insists on 16 tails for each chest to secure
Cargo from confiscation the
and her
moment she leaves these waters.
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I cannot find that the Proclamation
'make's
any
and
touign
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and
distinction between Native
owned vessels
bound for the open
any
between
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other destination. Whether
Treaty Ports
the former distinction was
not, I cannot
say
intended or but no such distinction
is made in the terms of the hoclamation.
3.
I need not remind Your Space that
by the Treaty of Tientsin and the
thereto Foreigners
Articles annexed
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entitled to import Opium into the Treaty Ports at a fixed Juriff of 30 Jaelo per chest. By the 12+ Article of the Treaty British subjecto
are also entitled to hire
whatever boats they please for the
transport of goods
it would seem
subject
and
papengers, and therefore that a British would be entitled to hire a funk
here and transport opium hence to banton
Swataw
and sell it there
30
on payment of the Treaty cluty, viz.